Richard Venable Gaines
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Name
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Richard Venable Gaines
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Given Name
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Richard Venable
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Family Name
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Gaines
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Occupation
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University of Virginia student
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Description
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The University of Virginia’s Faculty Minutes, April 24, 1850, records that Richard Venable Gaines was a University of Virginia student who, along with Daniel B. Conrad and John B. Eastham, witnessed the violent rape of an unidentified young girl by University of Virginia students and perpetrators George H. Hardy, Armistead C. Eliason, and James E. Montandon. Gaines and fellow witnesses Conrad and Eastham interfered to stop the attack and reported it to the Chairman of the Faculty.
